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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






2. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






3. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






4. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity may begin based upon the schedule network logic - the project completion date and any constraints assigned to schedule activities without violating schedule constraint or delaying project com






5. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






6. The process of defining and documenting stakeholder needs to meet project objectives






7. Method of resolving the total variance in the set of scope - cost - and schedule variables into specific component variances that are associated with defined factors affecting scope - cost and schedule variables






8. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






9. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






10. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






11. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






12. Float (total float - free float)






13. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






14. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






15. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






16. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






17. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics






18. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






19. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






20. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






21. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






22. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






23. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






24. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






25. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






26. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






27. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






28. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






29. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






30. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






31. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






32. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






33. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






34. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






35. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






36. Project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into the potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Monte Carlo Analysis






37. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






38. Request for proposal - but may have a narrower or more specific meaning






39. Information system consisting of tools and techniques to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes.






40. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






41. Processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies - objectives and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken






42. Describes each component in the work breakdown structure (WBS). for each WBS component - the WBS dictionary includes a brief definition of the scope of statement of work - defined deliverables - a list of associated activities and list of milestones.






43. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






44. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






45. Reserve






46. ACWP






47. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






48. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






49. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






50. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.







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